Nerds get annoyed by some pretty odd things. Please post some of yours.
Let's see, I hate mispronunciation of Latin. Like when people pronounce "veni vidi vici" as "Venny Viddy Vichy" instead of "Wany Weedy Weaky", or "vice versa" as "vice (like a fault) verse-a" instead of "Weekay Wair-suh".
Oh, and people messing up weight and mass, and centrifugal vs. centripetal, and Republicans, and people who think that the Bible (or any other book, let alone a 2-eon old one that's been translated from Hebrew) is true word-for-word, and people confusing millennia and eons.

"There is, for some unfathomed reason, something almost unbearably sexy about having huge fire-breathing magical dragons flying low about the sky on moonlit nights which [are] already dangerously on the sweet and fragrant side."
-Douglas Adams

Not asking what you're adhering to, since I can tell by your phonetics (Roman Latin), but be aware that there are different standards.

Ultimately, it's a dead language, it can be pronounced any way it wants to be. The first quote (veni vidi vici) is actually a quote from a Roman, so I can see being kindof a pronunciation nazi about it, but the second (vice-versa) is practically just an english word now, and if the english standard is to pronounce it like it's spelled....so be it. To insist otherwise opens the door to people trying to revert other parts of our language to their original pronunciation, and I really don't feel like learning old *or* middle english, because.....eww.

(bonus points for anyone who claims "people who hijack threads into tangents" as their pet peeve)

-When people say stuff like "wow, you must read the dictionary" because my vocabulary includes words that aren't found in rap songs.

50 cent/Nelly/whoever don't represent all of hiphop. There are plenty of intelligent and complex phrases, using mammoth libraries of words in lots of hiphop, moreso than most other genres I'd say, given the amount of syllables and type of rhythm allowed in rap compared to singing.

But yes, I tend to dumb down my speech in real life for the pure sake of avoiding "don't try and sound smart with long words " comments.

Saladin wrote:Yeah, just so you know, if for some bizarre reason we are ever in the same vicinity in real life, and I say "vice versa", and you try to 'correct' me, I will punch you in the face.

There, that can be a pet peeve. People who try to tell me how to pronounce things. I don't care if it's the correct way, if I say it a certain way it's how it should be pronounced, damnit.

Damn, getting punched in the face is really one of my pet peeves.

Hopefully for my sake you never have to pronounce my name; I'd predict based on empirical evidence that you have about a 50% chance of getting it right. Though our family probably pronounces it incorrectly anyway.

Another peeve of mine is when people spell my name wrong, when they're copying it from a piece of paper given to them BY ME. Which happens all the time. I once flamed my TAs on a class message board for that. Used the "F" word and everything. Several times per sentence. I would have done it to the professor, too, if he'd dared to cross me... but that's just because I was too stressed out and needed to, as Wikey would surely say, chillax more.

One of these days my desk is going to collapse in the middle and all its weight will come down on my knee and tear my new fake ACL. It could be tomorrow. This is my concern.

Shrek the sheep is still annoying. They shaved him on an iceberg. Which, when I put it like that, is absurd. So, i guess i'm okay with it.

Another peeve of mine is the word peeve. Ew. It sounds ghastly. What i was actually going to say was when i go to click on a window, but miss, and hit an icon, and then I have to wait for a program to load before i can close the program.

not sure how nerdy it is, but (to stick with the theme of close buttons) i hate the new WMP11, with its silly vista-y theme and elongated close button that i have to move my cursor just that little bit extra to click. also, that's one thing i hate about IE7, but let's not go there.

i hate people who use the word guesstimate (well only one because i only know one person who does)

i hate people who don't pay attention to what's going on in the world around them. it seems whenever i try to talk to friends about something, i have to explain it to them because they just won't listen.

and after reading that, i think i just hate people in general, so i'm going cave-hunting.

Peshmerga wrote:A blow job would probably get you a LOT of cheeseburgers.But I digress.

One of my biggest geek ones is people bitching about speed mods on music games. Shut. The. Fuck. Up. It's an arrow-stomping game, not an arrow-reading game. You want something about reading whatever, go download Mavis Beacon and play THAT 1x no bar. Oh wait, that's about hitting the keys, too.

Strangely, people bitching about the bar only pisses me off about 1/4 as much. I mean, it's possible to play without and I'll do both, but bitching about speed mods...seriously, half of the people who are playing 1x are just memorizing the damn songs eventually anyway and that's how they're "reading" it.

Another thing, people that pretend that if it's math they can't do it. That ESPECIALLY holds true for modular arithmetic. I don't think any more elaboration is necessary here.

I still think most rap is mindless and stupid. But i mean I won't be exclusive.

//Yepp, THE fjafjan (who's THE fjafjan?)

Liza wrote:Fjafjan, your hair is so lovely that I want to go to Sweden, collect the bit you cut off in your latest haircut and keep it in my room, and smell it. And eventually use it to complete my shrine dedicated to you.

I use the different names for clouds constantly in small talk (what's smaller than the weather?). I challenge you to find a rap song with the word "cumulonimbus" or "cirrostratus" in it. Hell, the spellcheck function doesn't even have "cirrostratus" in it, so I think I'm safe. Then again, it doesn't have "spellcheck", either.

Oh, and I did include a "none" option, but apparently I missed clicking the button that actually made it part of the poll. Gonna try to add it again now.

"There is, for some unfathomed reason, something almost unbearably sexy about having huge fire-breathing magical dragons flying low about the sky on moonlit nights which [are] already dangerously on the sweet and fragrant side."

I get annoyed with snobs, with people who think of themself as superior to others and people who think violence is a neccesary path. I am annoyed by people on the more conservative side of the political spectrum and somewhat with people who refuse to have a vaguely nyanced view of conflicts. I'm annoyed with whoever supports and/or voted for Bush.
I am annoyed with people who buy jackets for 500$ and complain about problems in the world, I am annoyed with people who blame people who suffer for suffering, and I get annoyed with people that think apple is innovative.
I am annoyed with people who think the moon landing was faked, and people who think WW1 and 2 was germanys fault. I get annoyed when people think that IQ meassures rationality, and assumes that people with 'lower education' are always stupider.
I get annoyed when people are fretty about grammar.

I think that covers most of it ... some of it is hypocritical but that doesn't really bother me.

//Yepp, THE fjafjan (who's THE fjafjan?)

Liza wrote:Fjafjan, your hair is so lovely that I want to go to Sweden, collect the bit you cut off in your latest haircut and keep it in my room, and smell it. And eventually use it to complete my shrine dedicated to you.

I can understand SOME of the bitching about C-mods since it takes away whatever stops and speed changes, but you know what, there are two points about those which deal with the vast majority of it...

1) it's difficult to time tempo changes with those, probably more so than with standard-style speed mods

2) there are some tempo changes which are just STUPID. See the ending of either Vertex brother. If ITG ever got anything like DDR's Chaos (STUPID STUPID STUPID), that'd be the best possible example of why it's ok to have C-mods. After all, I've never heard of anybody NOT having to memorize the stops in that...

I'm annoyed by people who think ROFL! Or LMAOzz! is a meaningful enough insite to warrant an entire post...

I'm also annoyed by bad grammar. Actually, it's more like I annoy other people by constantly correcting their bad grammar. But still, it makes me twitch whenever I hear someone utter "more better" or "he runs fast".

I am annoyed by people in general, most specifically my own age group.

Getting an A in a class does not make you a nerd, nor does it make you smart. It means you happened to be listening that day.

Life does not revolve around freaking MySpace. Just...'nuff said.

Pull your pants up. Now. They are meant to cover your ass.

You are not "gangsta". Your mother drives you to school and packs your lunch.

We get it. Your family is rich enough to buy you an iPod and cell phone. Don't parade it around the classroom. You can wait the three hours to text your friend about what that one kid totally did in class.

What are you doing with boyfriends and girlfriends and sex? You aren't going to be with that person past two weeks from now and you're just begging for problems and trauma later in life.

I can understand SOME of the bitching about C-mods since it takes away whatever stops and speed changes, but you know what, there are two points about those which deal with the vast majority of it...

1) it's difficult to time tempo changes with those, probably more so than with standard-style speed mods

2) there are some tempo changes which are just STUPID. See the ending of either Vertex brother. If ITG ever got anything like DDR's Chaos (STUPID STUPID STUPID), that'd be the best possible example of why it's ok to have C-mods. After all, I've never heard of anybody NOT having to memorize the stops in that...

I played Stepmania for a bit and the C speeds make it really easy, it increases the speed without reducing the hit window so it's a million times easier to time things. You still need to be pretty darn accurate to get lots of perfects though. I've played ones where the beats are literally as slow as a snail and it's so fucking hard to time them to get perfect because you're not sure when they're exactly over, C fixes that.